New Year’s Resolution for any American who does give a rat’s ass about how government impacts his life: resolve to read Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville in 2016. . . and then do something about the disconnect between the America he wrote about and what exists today.
Volume I: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/815
Volume II: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/816
Go. Read. Learn. Do.